‘Horror house’ torture got worse over time: investigators.

The torture of 13 California siblings at the hands of their own parents lasted for decades and only got worse as it went on, investigators revealed Thursday. “The victimization appeared to intensify over time,” riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said during a press conference. “What started out as neglect became severe, pervasive abuse.” Parents...

Time: 19:18&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Date: 18.01.2018

“The victimization appeared to intensify over time,” riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said during a press conference. “What started out as neglect became severe, pervasive abuse.”

Parents David and Louise Turpion are accused of 38 counts of torture, child endangerment and false imprisonment — and the dad is being hit with one count of performing a lewd act on a child under 14 — after police discovered Sunday that they routinely withheld food from the kids and kept them shackled to furniture as punishment, Hestrin said.

“The victims reported that as punishment, starting many years ago, they began to be tied up first with ropes,” he said. “One victim at one point [was] tied up in hogties, and when she escaped the ropes, the defendants started using chains and padlocks to chain the victims to their beds.”

The abuse began at a Fort Worth, Texas, house the family occupied for 17 years starting in 1992, Hestrin said. Then, the parents lived away from their kids and only stopped by to occasionally drop off food.

But David and Louise plunged to greater depths of depravity as they began buying food and toys and dangling them over the children’s heads while only allowing them one meal a day and just one shower a year, officials said.